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Legendary comebacks/replies (self.Blind)
submitted by r_1235
I was wondering if people have crazy/fun stories about cunningly replying to something someone else said or did about their blindness.
Let me give an example, my teacher once shared this with me, gonna tell it in first person for fun!
One day, I was standing on the bus stop,waiting for my bus. As I was browzing my phone, some random guy walked up to me, gave me like 5 dollers, like how people give money to beggars. I, in a brilliant turn of events, replied, "Dude, can't you see I am using an an IPhone here? at least 100 dollers should be minimum!".
Not sure if the event translated well in to English, but, I felt it was a brilliant and funny come back for something stupid that the moneygiver did.
Let me give an example, my teacher once shared this with me, gonna tell it in first person for fun!
One day, I was standing on the bus stop,waiting for my bus. As I was browzing my phone, some random guy walked up to me, gave me like 5 dollers, like how people give money to beggars. I, in a brilliant turn of events, replied, "Dude, can't you see I am using an an IPhone here? at least 100 dollers should be minimum!".
Not sure if the event translated well in to English, but, I felt it was a brilliant and funny come back for something stupid that the moneygiver did.
Odd-Tie6308 21 points 1y ago
One story my visually impaired boyfriend told me: he was using the restroom at work when a sighted co-worker came in and couldn't find the soap dispenser.
Boyfriend: "the dispenser is over there om the right hand wall"
Co-worker: " oh thank you I think I must be blind!!" (A thing we tend to say in my language when we can't find something)
Boyfriend: "yeah me too"
Another story I saw in a TV report about visually impaired people: A sighted person runs into a legally blind person and her guide dog due to not paying attention
Sighted Person: "sorry I didn't see you there"
Blind person: "me neither'"
Boyfriend: "the dispenser is over there om the right hand wall"
Co-worker: " oh thank you I think I must be blind!!" (A thing we tend to say in my language when we can't find something)
Boyfriend: "yeah me too"
Another story I saw in a TV report about visually impaired people: A sighted person runs into a legally blind person and her guide dog due to not paying attention
Sighted Person: "sorry I didn't see you there"
Blind person: "me neither'"
homerq 14 points 1y ago
Someone called me an obscenity for standing near their 'personal space'. I responded, "Terribly sorry my blindness inconvenienced you."
Criptedinyourcloset 11 points 1y ago
So, I was walking through school just minding my own business and some kid ran into me. He apologized, and then asked why I had a white cane. Now, I’m willing to educate people so I just respond with “because I’m blind. “This kid says the old “but you don’t look blind. “I respond with, you don’t look stupid but you are. So obviously looks shouldn’t matter “he shut up right away.
r_1235 [OP] 3 points 1y ago
ROFL Nice!
DHamlinMusic 9 points 1y ago
I have a shirt that my sister found for me right after I lost my vision. It simply reads,
You're in my blind spot
You're in my blind spot
oncenightvaler 2 points 1y ago
o, found this t-shirt at an NFB convention. In Braille and in quite tiny print: if you can read this you are too close!
However I could not purchase it for myself because it was a woman's shirt and I identify as male.
However I could not purchase it for myself because it was a woman's shirt and I identify as male.
homerq 2 points 1y ago
I have to say, that's sublimely brilliant.
keepitgoingtoday 2 points 1y ago
Where get?
DHamlinMusic 3 points 1y ago
I think she found it on Amazon but I'm not entirely sure.
BlindGirlSees 1 points 1y ago
I’m definitely getting myself one of these!
BooksDogsMaps 5 points 1y ago
Sometimes people in a hurry at the train station bump into me. They probably have their phone in front of their faces or something, because they don‘t take notice of the cane. Most apologise, but rarely someone will angrily say: „Can‘t you watch where you‘re going?!“
Me: „No.“ *holds up cane*
The even funnier version of this happened when I was in fifth grade on a school trip and this happened. I myself was in shock, but some of the other students (also blind vi) shouted in kind of s chorus „No, she‘s blind!“
Me: „No.“ *holds up cane*
The even funnier version of this happened when I was in fifth grade on a school trip and this happened. I myself was in shock, but some of the other students (also blind vi) shouted in kind of s chorus „No, she‘s blind!“
r_1235 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Yea!
This happened once with me as well. My friends were so angry that they grabbed that guy, and made him apologize to me. ROFL, we were wild young college kids back then, high on adrenaline, ready to kick anyone's ass if they crossed our paths.
Now, those encounters are just silent awkward moments, for the sighted guys who crashed in to me, not for me, Have learnt to use my white cane in a more assertive manner :D
This happened once with me as well. My friends were so angry that they grabbed that guy, and made him apologize to me. ROFL, we were wild young college kids back then, high on adrenaline, ready to kick anyone's ass if they crossed our paths.
Now, those encounters are just silent awkward moments, for the sighted guys who crashed in to me, not for me, Have learnt to use my white cane in a more assertive manner :D
oncenightvaler 3 points 1y ago
I'm not sure whether this qualifies, and I've told it here before.
I was at a local chain, Jack Astor's with some friends. I asked the server if they had a Braille menu. The server had a look so blank even I could see it and said "Braille? Braille? Is that the menu with all the healthy alternatives?"
"No, it's the menu with all the little dots."
I was at a local chain, Jack Astor's with some friends. I asked the server if they had a Braille menu. The server had a look so blank even I could see it and said "Braille? Braille? Is that the menu with all the healthy alternatives?"
"No, it's the menu with all the little dots."
codeplaysleep 3 points 1y ago
A sales clerk kept trying to show me something behind her counter. I kept insisting I'm blind and couldn't see it. She kept not being able to accept that fact. Finally I said "hold on, let me get a closer look" and took out my prosthetic eye and held it up to the display case. "Oh.. Ok, I see now. Yeah, not interested." put my eye back in and walked away while she just kind of stood there dumbfounded.
r_1235 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Wow! Absolute legend!
Out of curiosity, Do you regularly take out your prosthetic eyes? I thought it would be painful.
And, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I would massively freak out if someone took out their eyes in front of me.
Out of curiosity, Do you regularly take out your prosthetic eyes? I thought it would be painful.
And, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I would massively freak out if someone took out their eyes in front of me.
codeplaysleep 1 points 1y ago
It's not painful at all. It's not even particularly uncomfortable once you've done it a time or two and are used to putting it back in, which is the more involved part.
I don't take it out often, because there's generally not a need to. It's professionally polished once a year. Sometimes, toward the end of that year (like now), or during allergy season, I need to take it out and rinse it off because it gets build-up on it. But generally speaking, that's not the case. I think I've had it out once in the past year.
I could alleviate this by getting it polished every 6 months, but my ocularist is only close by 1-2 days a month and even then it's an hour's drive away. Sometimes my optometrist will clean it for me, but we're a small town and he doesn't have a lot of patients with prosthetics, so I see the ocularist for a proper polishing.
I don't take it out often, because there's generally not a need to. It's professionally polished once a year. Sometimes, toward the end of that year (like now), or during allergy season, I need to take it out and rinse it off because it gets build-up on it. But generally speaking, that's not the case. I think I've had it out once in the past year.
I could alleviate this by getting it polished every 6 months, but my ocularist is only close by 1-2 days a month and even then it's an hour's drive away. Sometimes my optometrist will clean it for me, but we're a small town and he doesn't have a lot of patients with prosthetics, so I see the ocularist for a proper polishing.
TechnicalPragmatist 2 points 1y ago
Someone was coming to pick me up. I asked someone to walk me to the nearest street in front of the building after this open space.
This woman said to me. Oh wait. You drive. I didn’t know you drive. I didn’t know you drive too.
Me: I can drive sure. I can drive you up the wall!
We laughed and then I explained to her no in fact someone was coming to pick me up.
She was like oh yeah, I thought you drive that’s interesting and even more super cool thing about you. I said well unfortunately not. Like I said I can drive you nuts.
This woman said to me. Oh wait. You drive. I didn’t know you drive. I didn’t know you drive too.
Me: I can drive sure. I can drive you up the wall!
We laughed and then I explained to her no in fact someone was coming to pick me up.
She was like oh yeah, I thought you drive that’s interesting and even more super cool thing about you. I said well unfortunately not. Like I said I can drive you nuts.
Typical_ASU_Student 2 points 1y ago
Totally blind in my right eye. It's always kind of fun when I accidentally bump somebody coming from my right side. They will loudly say something like DIDN'T YOU SEE ME? No, sorry I'm blind. Was even better when I was like 9 and they just felt like the biggest assholes in the world.
AnonSnowRaven 2 points 1y ago
Not me but n anime I watched, the Avatar. When they were in a cave. Toph is blind.
Character: I can't see anything
Toph: Oh no! What a nightmare!
Character: I can't see anything
Toph: Oh no! What a nightmare!
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